FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRIZE WINNER

Women's History Month: Gwendolyn Brooks, A Well of Knowledge – Nikki's  Confetti Life

Gwendolyn Brooks - Wikiquote
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
(June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000)

The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry,
Brooks used her work to explore the urban African American
experience.

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Commemorative postage stamp issued by the USPS in 2012

Writer and poet Gwendolyn Brooks had her first poem published in a  children's magazine when she was just 13 years old. Three years later, she  had published approximately 75 poems. Gwendolyn Brooks

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